Sean Michael Kerner

OES is Novell’s operating system product that helps to provide a bridge to its legacy NetWare customers. The OES product line first debuted in 2005. With the new OES 11 release, Novell is basing the server on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 release, that debuted back in May 2010. The new OES release […]

According to IDC, the global Ethernet switch market had revenues of $5.9 billion for the third quarter of 2011. That translates into a 6.1 percent year-over-year growth rate and 10.9 percent sequentially. Infonetics Research has a different figure for the third quarter, pegging Ethernet switch sales at $5.0 billion. 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) is […]

From the ‘More Than Just a Blog‘ files: Yeaah, I know, WordPress is blogging software right? Well yes and no. WordPress has evolved to become the most popular open source Content Management System (CMS) in recent years besting Drupal and Joomla (as far as I can tell) in terms of sheer user numbers (admittedly not […]

From the ‘Evolution of PHP’ files: Facebook is a big user of PHP throughout its infrastructure, but they don’t use quite the same same PHP that the rest of us use. A year and a half ago they launched HipHop,their own open source runtime for PHP. Last week, they officially launched the HipHop virtual machine […]

Some vendors move faster than others when it comes to integrating products from an acquisition. Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) acquired storage vendor startup Gluster in October for $136 million. Now Red Hat is already out with its first Gluster-based product, The Red Hat Storage Appliance. The new appliance integrates components from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) […]

WAN optimization vendor Blue Coat Systems (Nasdaq: BCSI) announced today that it is being taken private by an investment group led by private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC. The deal is valued at $1.3 billion and is expected to close in the first quarter of calendar 2012. “The value of the deal speaks for itself, […]

From the ‘Open Source Lifeline’ files: The day that webOS was officially killed was a shocking one for me. I remember being at LinuxCon, and it was just a few short hours after an awesome keynote from HP on webOS that the axe fell. Now HP is giving webOS a second life – by open […]

“We must fight so that technology is used to shine a light on oppression and intolerance, to illuminate persecution and dehumanization, to take oppression and mass murder out of the shadows.” Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, speaking at the swearing in of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, of which he is the chairman […]

One of the leading vendors in the commercial Hadoop space is Cloudera, which develops the Cloudera Enterprise Hadoop (CEH) distribution. Going a step beyond just having a Big Data deployment, Cloudera also develops the Cloudera Enterprise Manager software release, which provides management tools for Hadoop. The new Cloudera Enterprise 3.7 release comes as vendors big […]

During the company’s Annual General Meeting held Wednesday, CEO John Chambers outlined Cisco’s strategy for the road ahead. It’s a strategy that emphasizes innovation and business enablement as opposed to just the network plumbing of switches and routers. Chambers also stressed that Cisco will aggressively compete against rival networking vendors including Juniper, HP and Huawei. […]

In June of 2010, Alcatel-Lucent debuted 100 Gigabit per second network equipment for service providers. Now after over a year of field use, Alcatel-Lucent is enhancing their 100G portfolio with new technology that makes 100G transmissions more reliable with extended performance. Kevin Drury, Director of product marketing for our Alcatel-Lucent’s optics portfolio explained that the […]

Open source business intelligence provider JasperSoft is among the many software vendors looking to help companies derive value from Big Data information. The new JasperSoft 4.5 release isn’t just about connecting to Big Data, it’s about analyzing the data quickly. Mike Boyarski, director of product marketing at JasperSoft, explained to InternetNews.com that analytics solutions typically connect […]